Gastropod: Savour Flavour

by | Apr 21, 2015

Why does grape candy taste so fake? What on earth is blue raspberry, anyway? And what is the difference between natural and artificial, at least when it comes to flavour? Join us as we taste the rainbow on this episode of Gastropod, from artificial flavouring’s...

Pear Bulb

by | Jan 27, 2015

IMAGE: “Die Glühbirne,” 2015, from “The Light Inside,” photograph by Radu Zaciu. German slang for light bulb is “die Glühbirne,” or “the glow pear.” As Romanian photograph Radu Zaciu explained to Petapixel, his latest...

Holy Radish Water, Scientists!

by | Jan 23, 2015

IMAGE: Bottles of holy water (available at the Sacramentals Foundation of Omaha, Nebraska) and a radish. In a paper published in the journal Psychological Reports in 1979, Sandra Lenington measured the mean growth of 12 radish seeds watered with holy water against...

100 Shades of French Fry

by | Nov 9, 2014

For just two days this weekend, a gallery on New York’s Lower East Side hosted a pop-up French fry exhibition. IMAGE: A French fry on the Bowery. All photos in this post by Nicola Twilley. It was a PR stunt put together by craft condiment contender Sir...

Proustian Greengrocers

by | Aug 24, 2014

IMAGE: Memory Lane, courtesy Grove Care, Ltd. Among the facilities at the Blossom Fields care home near Bristol is “Memory Lane”: a reconstructed 1950s street where residents, many of whom suffer from Alzheimer’s or dementia, can mail letters in a...

The Photosynthetic Habits of Highly Effective Plants

by | Aug 18, 2014

As far as we know, the plant kingdom has not developed its own genre of productivity literature. There is no plant equivalent of Six Sigma, GTD, or Lifehacker — an absence made all the more alarming by the recent discovery of the existence of a subterranean plant...